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it. Several of my people, after taking out 
the young which they found in theirs, made 
an omelet of the reft. I queftioned them, 
with fome pleafantry, refpecfting their fine 
ragouts of thefe half-hatched eggs, and I 
could not help concluding that they muft be 
infedtious ; on this account I was defirous of 
tafting them, and had I not been blinded by 
prejudice, I fliould have found no difference 
between them and mine, and fliould have eat 
them with as much pleafure. 
We fpent the evening very cheerfully; but 
this was not the cafe during the night, for* 
we were all kept awake by the continual 
barking of our dogs, which was the more 
difagreeable, as our ears were affailed by no 
other noife. As this uproar was not occa-* 
lioned by any wild beaft, for it would foon 
or late have made its appearance, our fufpi- 
clons fell upon the favagCv^?, and I began to 
be apprehenfive of fome treachery. Day at 
length appeared, but it did not bring back 
tranquillity, and all the fearch which we 
made in the neighbourhood proved entirely 
fruitlefs. We did not know whether the 
people whom we dreaded were CafFres, or 
fome of thofe plunderers called the Boflimen : 
the 
